{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"e6cc242ccf1a04a0db2a59f4","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/e6cc242ccf1a04a0db2a59f4","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/e6cc242ccf1a04a0db2a59f4","title":"Platform Engineer / DevSecOps Engineer","description":"Job Family:\nDevelopment Operations\n\nTravel Required:\nNone\n\nClearance Required:\nAbility to Obtain Public Trust\nWhat You Will Do:\nWe are seeking a strong Platform Engineer / DevSecOps Engineer to support the GrantSolutions platform modernization effort by building and improving the cloud engineering, automation, deployment, security, and operational capabilities needed to deliver modern software at scale. This role will help establish and operate the AWS-based platform patterns, shared DevSecOps services, pipelines, controls, and automation that enable multiple Scrum teams and vendor partners to deliver securely and consistently while supporting continuity of the legacy system throughout the transition.\nThe Platform Engineer / DevSecOps Engineer will support cloud platform engineering, CI/CD implementation, infrastructure automation, security integration, environment management, release enablement, observability, and operational readiness in an iterative modernization environment. This individual will help deliver a secure and automated engineering platform that enables new vendor-delivered capabilities to integrate with legacy components as the modernized platform is built out over time. The role requires hands-on AWS cloud experience, strong automation skills, practical DevSecOps judgment, and close collaboration with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, project managers, solution architects, security teams, vendors, executive leadership, and Federal stakeholders to align platform delivery with architecture standards, governance expectations, release readiness, compliance requirements, and long-term modernization objectives.\nDesign, build, automate, secure, and operate AWS cloud platform capabilities that support a large-scale GrantSolutions platform modernization program delivered through iterative agile execution.\nImplement and maintain modern DevSecOps practices, including secure CI/CD pipelines, automated build and deployment workflows, quality gates, vulnerability scanning, secrets management, policy enforcement, and release automation.\nDevelop, maintain, and improve Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK, or comparable technologies to support repeatable, auditable, and compliant environment provisioning.\nSupport cloud-native application delivery patterns using AWS services, container platforms, serverless services, managed databases, networking, identity and access management, logging, monitoring, and security services.\nPartner with software engineering teams to standardize reusable pipeline templates, deployment patterns, environment configurations, shared libraries, and automation scripts that improve delivery speed, consistency, and reliability.\nEmbed security early and continuously across the software delivery lifecycle through automated static analysis, dependency scanning, container/image scanning, infrastructure scanning, configuration validation, and compliance evidence generation.\nImplement and support observability practices, including centralized logging, metrics, dashboards, alerts, tracing, operational health checks, and production readiness monitoring across modernized and legacy-integrated capabilities.\nSupport secure environment management, including configuration management, access control, network segmentation, encryption, secrets handling, backup considerations, disaster recovery support, and change/release coordination.\nCollaborate with solution architects, security teams, vendors, and Federal stakeholders to ensure platform capabilities align with enterprise architecture guidance, FedRAMP Moderate expectations, NIST controls, governance standards, and program security requirements.\nTroubleshoot platform, pipeline, deployment, integration, performance, and operational issues; identify root causes; implement automation or process improvements; and support continuous improvement of the engineering platform.\n\nWhat You Will Need:\nMust be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD \"PUBLIC TRUST\"; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding with Guidehouse. Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred.\nBachelor’s degree required.\nMinimum of FIVE (5) years of experience in platform engineering, DevSecOps, cloud engineering, infrastructure automation, site reliability engineering, systems engineering, or related technical roles.\nHands-on experience with AWS services including ECS/EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, IAM, and Systems Manager.\nExperience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or similar tools.\nExperience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar automation frameworks.\nExperience implementing and supporting DevSecOps practices, including automated testing, vulnerability scanning, secrets management, and secure software delivery.\nExperience integrating security controls into pipelines, including static code analysis, dependency scanning, container/image scanning, infrastructure scanning, secrets detection, artifact management, and security quality gates.\nExperience with AWS identity, access management, networking, logging, monitoring, encryption, secrets management, and security services, including practical application of least privilege and secure-by-default patterns.\nStrong experience with containerization technologies including Docker and container orchestration platforms such as ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes.\nExperience managing application deployments, environment configuration, release automation, and production support activities.\nExperience implementing platform observability through monitoring, logging, alerting, tracing, and operational dashboards using tools such as CloudWatch, ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, or similar.\nExperience supporting highly available, scalable, and resilient cloud environments, including disaster recovery and operational readiness activities.\nExperience with Linux administration, shell scripting, and automation using Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages.\nExperience troubleshooting infrastructure, networking, application, and deployment issues across distributed cloud environments.\nFamiliarity with networking concepts including VPCs, load balancers, DNS, security groups, WAF, VPNs, and private connectivity patterns.\nAbility to create reusable platform patterns, pipeline templates, runbooks, automation scripts, environment standards, and technical documentation for engineering teams.\nExperience troubleshooting cloud infrastructure, pipelines, deployments, environment configuration, performance, availability, access, and integration issues across complex technical environments.\nStrong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), agile delivery, release management, change management, operational readiness, and continuous improvement practices.\nAbility to collaborate effectively with software engineers, architects, security teams, vendors, operations teams, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and Federal stakeholders.\nStrong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills with a focus on automation, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.\nExceptional communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts, platform standards, operational issues, and risk trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.\n\nWhat Would Be Nice To Have:\nExperience supporting federal or government IT programs involving cloud modernization, DevSecOps implementation, platform engineering, security compliance, shared services, or phased capability delivery.\nExperience supporting federal cloud environments, FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST 800-53, or similar compliance frameworks.\nExperience with AWS services such as IAM, VPC, EC2, S3, RDS/Aurora, Lambda, ECS/Fargate, EKS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Config, Systems Manager, Secrets Manager, KMS, GuardDuty, Inspector, Security Hub, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, ECR, or comparable services.\nExperience with Keycloak, OAuth/OIDC, SSO, and enterprise identity platforms.\nExperience with artifact repositories, dependency management, container registries, software supply chain security, SBOM generation, signing, provenance, or secure release promotion practices.\nExperience with observability and reliability engineering practices, including service-level indicators, service-level objectives, incident response, runbooks, automated recovery, and production readiness reviews.\nExperience supporting multi-vendor delivery within a common platform architecture, including alignment to shared DevSecOps standards, environment management, release readiness, security expectations, and technical governance forums.\nCloud, DevSecOps, security, or agile certifications preferred, such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Security – Specialty, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist, Terraform Associate, Security+, SAFe, Certified ScrumMaster, or similar credentials.\nExperience using generative AI and AI-assisted development tools to accelerate the software development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, solution design, code generation and modernization, automated testing, documentation, code review, troubleshooting, and release readiness, while applying appropriate security, privacy, governance, and human-review controls.\nExperience prototyping or integrating generative AI capabilities using AWS Bedrock or comparable enterprise AI platforms.\nUnderstanding of privacy, security, data-use restrictions, and responsible AI considerations in federal or regulated environments.\nExperience with AI evaluation, prompt and model versioning, guardrails, monitoring, human-in-the-loop review, and mitigation of hallucination or unsafe output risks.\n\nWhat We Offer:\nGuidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.\nBenefits include:\nMedical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance\nPersonal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays\nParental Leave\n401(k) Retirement Plan\nGroup Term Life and Travel Assistance\nVoluntary Life and AD&D Insurance\nHealth Savings Account, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts\nTransit and Parking Commuter Benefits\nShort-Term & Long-Term Disability\nTuition Reimbursement, Personal Development, Certifications & Learning Opportunities\nEmployee Referral Program\nCorporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach\nCare.com annual membership\nEmployee Assistance Program\nSupplemental Benefits via Corestream (Critical Care, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance and ID theft protection, etc.)\nPosition may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus\nAbout Guidehouse\nGuidehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer–Protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.\nGuidehouse will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law or ordinance including the Fair Chance Ordinance of Los Angeles and San Francisco.\nIf you have visited our website for information about employment opportunities, or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Guidehouse Recruiting at 1-571-633-1711 or via email at RecruitingAccommodation@guidehouse.com. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodation.\nAll communication regarding recruitment for a Guidehouse position will be sent from Guidehouse email domains including @guidehouse.com or guidehouse@myworkday.com. Correspondence received by an applicant from any other domain should be considered unauthorized and will not be honored by Guidehouse. Note that Guidehouse will never charge a fee or require a money transfer at any stage of the recruitment process and does not collect fees from educational institutions for participation in a recruitment event. Never provide your banking information to a third party purporting to need that information to proceed in the hiring process.\nIf any person or organization demands money related to a job opportunity with Guidehouse, please report the matter to Guidehouse’s Ethics Hotline. If you want to check the validity of correspondence you have received, please contact recruiting@guidehouse.com. Guidehouse is not responsible for losses incurred (monetary or otherwise) from an applicant’s dealings with unauthorized third parties.\nGuidehouse does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. 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This role will help establish and operate the AWS-based platform patterns, shared DevSecOps services, pipelines, controls, and automation that enable multiple Scrum teams and vendor partners to deliver securely and consistently while supporting continuity of the legacy system throughout the transition.\nThe Platform Engineer / DevSecOps Engineer will support cloud platform engineering, CI/CD implementation, infrastructure automation, security integration, environment management, release enablement, observability, and operational readiness in an iterative modernization environment. This individual will help deliver a secure and automated engineering platform that enables new vendor-delivered capabilities to integrate with legacy components as the modernized platform is built out over time. The role requires hands-on AWS cloud experience, strong automation skills, practical DevSecOps judgment, and close collaboration with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, project managers, solution architects, security teams, vendors, executive leadership, and Federal stakeholders to align platform delivery with architecture standards, governance expectations, release readiness, compliance requirements, and long-term modernization objectives.\nDesign, build, automate, secure, and operate AWS cloud platform capabilities that support a large-scale GrantSolutions platform modernization program delivered through iterative agile execution.\nImplement and maintain modern DevSecOps practices, including secure CI/CD pipelines, automated build and deployment workflows, quality gates, vulnerability scanning, secrets management, policy enforcement, and release automation.\nDevelop, maintain, and improve Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK, or comparable technologies to support repeatable, auditable, and compliant environment provisioning.\nSupport cloud-native application delivery patterns using AWS services, container platforms, serverless services, managed databases, networking, identity and access management, logging, monitoring, and security services.\nPartner with software engineering teams to standardize reusable pipeline templates, deployment patterns, environment configurations, shared libraries, and automation scripts that improve delivery speed, consistency, and reliability.\nEmbed security early and continuously across the software delivery lifecycle through automated static analysis, dependency scanning, container/image scanning, infrastructure scanning, configuration validation, and compliance evidence generation.\nImplement and support observability practices, including centralized logging, metrics, dashboards, alerts, tracing, operational health checks, and production readiness monitoring across modernized and legacy-integrated capabilities.\nSupport secure environment management, including configuration management, access control, network segmentation, encryption, secrets handling, backup considerations, disaster recovery support, and change/release coordination.\nCollaborate with solution architects, security teams, vendors, and Federal stakeholders to ensure platform capabilities align with enterprise architecture guidance, FedRAMP Moderate expectations, NIST controls, governance standards, and program security requirements.\nTroubleshoot platform, pipeline, deployment, integration, performance, and operational issues; identify root causes; implement automation or process improvements; and support continuous improvement of the engineering platform.\n\nWhat You Will Need:\nMust be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD \"PUBLIC TRUST\"; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding with Guidehouse. Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred.\nBachelor’s degree required.\nMinimum of FIVE (5) years of experience in platform engineering, DevSecOps, cloud engineering, infrastructure automation, site reliability engineering, systems engineering, or related technical roles.\nHands-on experience with AWS services including ECS/EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, IAM, and Systems Manager.\nExperience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or similar tools.\nExperience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar automation frameworks.\nExperience implementing and supporting DevSecOps practices, including automated testing, vulnerability scanning, secrets management, and secure software delivery.\nExperience integrating security controls into pipelines, including static code analysis, dependency scanning, container/image scanning, 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Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and Federal stakeholders.\nStrong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills with a focus on automation, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.\nExceptional communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts, platform standards, operational issues, and risk trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.\n\nWhat Would Be Nice To Have:\nExperience supporting federal or government IT programs involving cloud modernization, DevSecOps implementation, platform engineering, security compliance, shared services, or phased capability delivery.\nExperience supporting federal cloud environments, FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST 800-53, or similar compliance frameworks.\nExperience with AWS services such as IAM, VPC, EC2, S3, RDS/Aurora, Lambda, ECS/Fargate, EKS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Config, Systems Manager, Secrets Manager, KMS, GuardDuty, Inspector, Security Hub, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, ECR, or comparable services.\nExperience with Keycloak, OAuth/OIDC, SSO, and enterprise identity platforms.\nExperience with artifact repositories, dependency management, container registries, software supply chain security, SBOM generation, signing, provenance, or secure release promotion practices.\nExperience with observability and reliability engineering practices, including service-level indicators, service-level objectives, incident response, runbooks, automated recovery, and production readiness reviews.\nExperience supporting multi-vendor delivery within a common platform architecture, including alignment to shared DevSecOps standards, environment management, release readiness, security expectations, and technical governance forums.\nCloud, DevSecOps, security, or agile certifications preferred, such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Security – Specialty, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist, Terraform Associate, Security+, SAFe, Certified ScrumMaster, or similar credentials.\nExperience using generative AI and AI-assisted development tools to accelerate the software development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, solution design, code generation and modernization, automated testing, documentation, code review, troubleshooting, and release readiness, while applying appropriate security, privacy, governance, and human-review controls.\nExperience prototyping or integrating generative AI capabilities using AWS Bedrock or comparable enterprise AI platforms.\nUnderstanding of privacy, security, data-use restrictions, and responsible AI considerations in federal or regulated environments.\nExperience with AI evaluation, prompt and model versioning, guardrails, monitoring, human-in-the-loop review, and mitigation of hallucination or unsafe output risks.\n\nWhat We Offer:\nGuidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive 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Employer–Protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.\nGuidehouse will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law or ordinance including the Fair Chance Ordinance of Los Angeles and San Francisco.\nIf you have visited our website for information about employment opportunities, or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Guidehouse Recruiting at 1-571-633-1711 or via email at RecruitingAccommodation@guidehouse.com. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodation.\nAll communication regarding recruitment for a Guidehouse position will be sent from Guidehouse email domains including @guidehouse.com or guidehouse@myworkday.com. Correspondence received by an applicant from any other domain should be considered unauthorized and will not be honored by Guidehouse. Note that Guidehouse will never charge a fee or require a money transfer at any stage of the recruitment process and does not collect fees from educational institutions for participation in a recruitment event. Never provide your banking information to a third party purporting to need that information to proceed in the hiring process.\nIf any person or organization demands money related to a job opportunity with Guidehouse, please report the matter to Guidehouse’s Ethics Hotline. 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